New research and evidence that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought

• Contrasts what Egyptologists claim about the Sphinx with historical accounts and new research including reanalysis of seismic studies and updates to Schoch’s water weathering research and Bauval’s Orion Correlation Theory

• Examines how the Sphinx is contemporaneous with Göbekli Tepe, aligned with the constellation Leo, and was recarved during the Old Kingdom era of Egypt

• Reveals that the Sphinx was built during the actual historical Golden Age of ancient Egypt, the period known in legend as Zep Tepi

No other monument in the world evokes mystery like the Great Sphinx of Giza. It has survived the harsh climate of Egypt for thousands of years and will remain long after our own civilization is gone. According to orthodox Egyptology, the Sphinx was built around 2500 BCE as a memorial to the pharaoh Khafre. Yet this “fact” has scant to no supportive evidence. When was the Sphinx really built and, most importantly, why?

In this provocative collaboration from two Egyptology outsiders, Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., and Robert Bauval combine their decades of research to show how the Sphinx is thousands of years older than the conventional Egyptological timeline and was built by a long forgotten pre-Pharaonic civilization. They examine the known history of the Sphinx, contrasting what Egyptologists claim with prominent historical accounts and new research, including updates to Schoch’s geological water weathering research and reanalysis of seismic studies. Building on Bauval’s Orion Correlation Theory, they investigate the archaeoastronomical alignments of the monuments of the Giza Plateau and reveal how the pyramids and Sphinx were built to align with the constellations of Orion and Leo. Analyzing the evidence for a significantly older construction phase at Giza and the restoration and recarving of the Sphinx during the Old Kingdom era, they assert that the Sphinx was first built by an advanced pre-Pharaonic civilization that existed circa 12,000 years ago on the Giza Plateau, contemporaneous with the sophisticated Göbekli Tepe complex.

The authors examine how the monuments at Giza memorialize Zep Tepi, the Golden Age of legend shown here to be an actual historical time period from roughly 10,500 BCE through 9700 BCE. Moving us closer to an understanding of the true age and purpose of the Great Sphinx, Schoch and Bauval provide evidence of an early high civilization witnessed by the Great Sphinx before the end of the last ice age.

新的研究和证据表明狮身人面像比以前认为的要早几千年

- 将埃及学家关于狮身人面像的说法与历史记载和新的研究进行对比，包括对地震研究的重新分析和对Schoch的水风化研究和Bauval的猎户座相关理论的更新

- 研究狮身人面像如何与哥贝克利特佩同时存在，与狮子座对齐，并在埃及旧王国时代被重新雕琢。

- 揭示了狮身人面像是在古埃及历史上的黄金时代建造的，这个时期在传说中被称为Zep Tepi

世界上没有其他纪念碑能像吉萨大狮身人面像那样唤起人们的神秘感。它在埃及严酷的气候下生存了数千年，在我们自己的文明消失后仍将长期存在。根据正统的埃及学，狮身人面像是在公元前2500年左右作为法老卡夫雷的纪念物而建。然而，这一 "事实 "几乎没有任何支持性的证据。狮身人面像到底是什么时候建造的，最重要的是，为什么？

在这本来自两位埃及学界人士的挑衅性合作中，Robert M. Schoch博士和Robert Bauval结合他们几十年的研究，展示了狮身人面像比传统埃及学的时间线要早几千年，是由一个早已被遗忘的前法老文明建造的。他们研究了狮身人面像的已知历史，将埃及学家的说法与著名的历史记载和新的研究进行对比，包括对Schoch的地质水风化研究的更新和地震研究的重新分析。在鲍瓦尔的猎户座相关理论的基础上，他们研究了吉萨高原古迹的古天文学排列，并揭示了金字塔和狮身人面像是如何与猎户座和狮子座的星座相一致的。他们分析了吉萨的一个明显更早的建筑阶段以及旧王国时代对狮身人面像的修复和重新雕刻的证据，断言狮身人面像最初是由大约12000年前存在于吉萨高原的一个先进的前法老文明建造的，与复杂的Göbekli Tepe建筑群同期。

作者研究了吉萨的纪念碑是如何纪念Zep Tepi的，这里显示的黄金时代是一个真实的历史时期，大约从公元前10500年到公元前9700年。Schoch和Bauval使我们更接近于了解大狮身人面像的真实年龄和目的，他们提供了大狮身人面像在最后一个冰期结束前见证的早期高级文明的证据。